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The Gathering 15 Review by Dave Jones
The Gathering 15 – 2007 The Gathering 15 – 2007 Electric – Saturday 27th January 2007 – When the three seven’s clash! review by Dave Jones It was the greatest Mike Peters / Alarm concert ever and we didn’t see it coming. The signs were all there before the show, Spirit Of ’76 early on Friday night, The Alarm 7/7/07 type-face on the t-shirt, the punk rock disco, Steve Diggle [read more]
Review: Alarm 2000 Collection
The Alarm Alarm 2000 Collection 21ST CENTURY 21C018 Much derided, even in their heyday, The Alarm suffered from a tendancy to wear their influences (Clash, U2, Dylan) all too obviously on their sleeves. Their songs sometimes struggled clumsily to contain frontman Mike Peters’ big-hearted righteous visions, but when it all clicked together (68 Guns, Blaze of Glory) their stomping rock lit up a moribund ’80s musical landscape. Immaculately packaged and [read more]
Review: Review: The Alarm, ‘Superchannel’ Feb 6 2006
Superchannel – The Alarm (EMI) Just as 45RPM roared its defiant way into the top 40 on the back of some stealth bombing by Mike Peters and his army of devoted Alarm fans, so Superchannel, similarly brim full of belligerent punk fire, looks to detonate in the upper echelons of the charts. And in doing so hopefully ripping a hole in people�s preconceived perceptions of Peters and his music. Stripped [read more]